Life Science
Energy enters most ecosystems through this process in plants.
What is Photosynthesis?
The force that pulls objects toward the Earth.
What is Gravity?
The layer of Earth where tectonic plates move.
In a graph, the variable you change is called the ____ variable.
What is Independent Variable?
A testable explanation for an observation.
What is Hypothesis?
The role of organisms that break down dead material and recycle nutrients.
What is Decomposers?
Energy stored in an object because of its position.
What is Potential Energy?
The type of plate boundary where plates move apart.
What is Divergent boundary?
The variable that responds to the change in the independent variable.
What is Dependent Variable?
The variable that is purposely changed in an experiment.
What is Independent Variable?
What level of the food chain contains the most energy?
What is Producers?
The transfer of heat through direct contact.
What is Conduction?
The main gas responsible for the greenhouse effect caused by human activity.
When two variables increase together, they have this type of relationship.
What is Positive Correlation?
The group in an experiment that does not receive the treatment.
What is Control group?
When a population levels off because resources become limited, it has reached this.
What is Carrying Capacity?
The law stating energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is Law of Conservation of Energy?
The cycle that moves carbon between the atmosphere, oceans, organisms, and rocks.
What is Carbon Cycle?
Population growth that increases rapidly then levels off follows this type of growth.
What is Logistic Growth?
A model that shows inputs, outputs, and interactions in a system.
What is System Model?
Name the process where organisms with beneficial traits survive and reproduce more often.
What is Natural Selection?
The relationship between force, mass, and acceleration described by Newton.
F = ma
The evidence that supports plate tectonics showing symmetric magnetic patterns on the ocean floor.
Scientists reduce experimental bias and increase reliability by doing this multiple times.
What is Repeating trials / replication?
When scientists use evidence, reasoning, and data to support a claim.
What is Argument from evidence?